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The Supreme Court Gives Federal Executions the Go-Ahead

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|Date: June 30, 2020
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The Supreme Court Gives Federal Executions the Go-Ahead

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider WASHINGTON DC – The Supreme Court rejected a petition contesting the recently e ...

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider WASHINGTON DC – The Supreme Court rejected a petition contesting the recently enacted federal execution protocol, effectively ending a 17-year hiatus of federal executions in ...

June 30, 2020
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Supreme Court Affirms Ohio Judge’s Order to Release Medically Vulnerable Incarcerated People

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Supreme Court Affirms Ohio Judge’s Order to Release Medically Vulnerable Incarcerated People

By Linh Nguyen & Metyia Phillips On May 26, 2020, the Supreme Court refused the Trump Administration’ ...

By Linh Nguyen & Metyia Phillips On May 26, 2020, the Supreme Court refused the Trump Administration’s request to block a lower judge’s trial ruling to release over 800 medically vulnerable incarc ...

May 27, 2020
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SCOTUS Finds Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts Unconstitutional

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|Date: April 21, 2020
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SCOTUS Finds Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts Unconstitutional

By Nancy Martinez & Murcel Rahimi The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that non-unanimous jury verdic ...

By Nancy Martinez & Murcel Rahimi The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that non-unanimous jury verdicts in Oregon and Louisiana are unconstitutional. Louisiana and Oregon have been the only two st ...

April 21, 2020
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The Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Man’s Appeal Claiming Biased Trial

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|Date: April 09, 2020
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The Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Man’s Appeal Claiming Biased Trial

By Juan Garcia Urrutia DALLAS, Texas - On April 6, the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari to one o ...

By Juan Garcia Urrutia DALLAS, Texas - On April 6, the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari to one of the Texas Seven who claims an unfair trial after discovering that the judge who sentenced him ...

April 09, 2020
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Supreme Court Decision Didn’t End Civil Asset Forfeiture

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|Date: March 17, 2019
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Supreme Court Decision Didn’t End Civil Asset Forfeiture

By Emma Andersson The 84 percent of Americans who oppose civil asset forfeiture can be forgiven for havin ...

By Emma Andersson The 84 percent of Americans who oppose civil asset forfeiture can be forgiven for having the impression that the U.S. Supreme Court ended abusive use of this practice last month in T ...

March 17, 2019
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SC Rules against Excessive Fines, Fees, and Forfeitures

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|Date: March 01, 2019
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SC Rules against Excessive Fines, Fees, and Forfeitures

By Nusrat Choudhury and Orion Dnjuma Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling in ...

By Nusrat Choudhury and Orion Dnjuma Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling in Timbs v. Indiana, holding for the first time that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause ...

March 01, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken, Part 2

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|Date: October 09, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken, Part 2

by Scott Ragsdale Part 2 – But You Can’t Kill the Message. Even if Kavanagh Withdrew If Kavanagh withdrew ...

by Scott Ragsdale Part 2 – But You Can’t Kill the Message. Even if Kavanagh Withdrew If Kavanagh withdrew his name, surely a juror with equally vindictive views about the meanings of life and the cons ...

October 09, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken

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|Date: October 08, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken

by Scott Ragsdale Part 1 – You Can Kill the Messenger. “What a message to send to the world. “If you are ...

by Scott Ragsdale Part 1 – You Can Kill the Messenger. “What a message to send to the world. “If you are powerful and entitled, just shout loud enough and you will seem genuine. Show enough contempt ...

October 08, 2018
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Closing the Double Jeopardy Loophole

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|Date: September 17, 2018
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Closing the Double Jeopardy Loophole

By David Cole and Somil Trivedi The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that no one can ...

By David Cole and Somil Trivedi The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that no one can be tried more than once for the same crime. The clause is designed to protect people from the d ...

September 17, 2018
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Supreme Court’s Disingenuous Funeral Ceremony for Korematsu

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|Date: July 15, 2018
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Supreme Court’s Disingenuous Funeral Ceremony for Korematsu

By Carl Takei Over Independence Day weekend, I joined hundreds of fellow Japanese-Americans at the Tule L ...

By Carl Takei Over Independence Day weekend, I joined hundreds of fellow Japanese-Americans at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Held on the site of the Tule Lake Segregation Center, this pilgrimage offers a ...

July 15, 2018
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The Supreme Court Looks Away

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|Date: July 03, 2018
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The Supreme Court Looks Away

By David Cole At the close of his opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from five ...

By David Cole At the close of his opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from five predominantly Muslim countries, Chief Justice John Roberts proclaimed on Tuesday that “Koremats ...

July 03, 2018
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Masterpiece Supreme Court Decision: The Bakery Wins the Battle but Loses the War

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|Date: June 05, 2018
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Masterpiece Supreme Court Decision: The Bakery Wins the Battle but Loses the War

By James Esseks In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a bakery that had ...

By James Esseks In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a bakery that had refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. It did so on grounds that are specific to ...

June 05, 2018
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Locked Up Indefinitely: The Supreme Court Case for Immigrants’ Right to a Bond Hearing

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|Date: September 27, 2017
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Locked Up Indefinitely: The Supreme Court Case for Immigrants’ Right to a Bond Hearing

By Judy Rabinovitz and Michael Tan On Oct. 3, the ACLU will be back in the Supreme Court to argue Jenning ...

By Judy Rabinovitz and Michael Tan On Oct. 3, the ACLU will be back in the Supreme Court to argue Jennings v. Rodriguez, a case that will decide the fate of thousands of men and women who are languish ...

September 27, 2017
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Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?

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|Date: June 07, 2017
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Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?

By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that will det ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that will determine how the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects cell phone data that tracks the de ...

June 07, 2017
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Justice Sotomayor Challenges Police Power in Suspicionless Stops

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|Date: June 26, 2016
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Justice Sotomayor Challenges Police Power in Suspicionless Stops

The talk of the legal world this week has been the scathing dissent offered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in ...

The talk of the legal world this week has been the scathing dissent offered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Utah v. Strieff, where the court majority ruled 5-3 that it was legal for police to search som ...

June 26, 2016
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SCOTUS on Deportation: A Non-Decision with Teeth

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|Date: June 24, 2016
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SCOTUS on Deportation: A Non-Decision with Teeth

By Cecilia Wang Today the Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked four to four on United States v. ...

By Cecilia Wang Today the Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked four to four on United States v. Texas. The one-line non-decision leaves unanswered the central question about the president’s ...

June 24, 2016
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Prosecutors Still Using Race To Choose Juries

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|Date: May 29, 2016
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Prosecutors Still Using Race To Choose Juries

By Cassandra Stubbs This week’s 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory for Ti ...

By Cassandra Stubbs This week’s 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory for Timothy Foster, a 49-year-old Black man who has been on Georgia’s death row for 29 years. The rul ...

May 29, 2016
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What Impact Will Justice Scalia’s Comments Have on Affirmative Action?

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|Date: December 10, 2015
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What Impact Will Justice Scalia’s Comments Have on Affirmative Action?

The New York Times and other observers believe a Texas affirmative action plan “seemed to be in trouble a ...

The New York Times and other observers believe a Texas affirmative action plan “seemed to be in trouble at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.” They noted, “By the end of an unusually long and tense argum ...

December 10, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Has the Police Issue Been Miscast As Racial Rather than Class-Based?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 06, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Has the Police Issue Been Miscast As Racial Rather than Class-Based?

In the year since Ferguson, the media and the nation has focused largely on a string of incidents that fe ...

In the year since Ferguson, the media and the nation has focused largely on a string of incidents that feature police interactions with unarmed African-Americans. But Damon Linker argues in The Week, ...

August 06, 2015
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